Academy of American Franciscan History Dissertation Fellowship, 2015 Winners

The Academy of American Franciscan History is pleased to announce the winners of its 2015 Dissertation Fellowship competition.

Daniel Cano. “Transforming Schools for Progress: Mapuche and GuaraniaMission-Schools in Chile and Bolivia, 1900–1950.”

Charlton Yingling. “Colonialism Unraveling: Religion, Radicalism, and theFranciscan Family in Santo Domingo during the Age of Revolutions, 1784–1822.”

Applications for next year's fellowship are due February 1, 2016. Please submit applications to the Academy of American Franciscan History, 1712 Euclid Ave., Berkeley, Calif. 94709. www.aafh.org.

Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) Awards and Prizewinners

The Conference on Latin American History (CLAH) is proud to announce its prizewinners for 2014.

The Bolton-Johnson Prize (2014)

This prize is for the best book in English on Latin American history published in the previous year.

Robert W. Patch, Indians and the Political Economy of Colonial CentralAmerica, 1670–1810 (Oklahoma, 2013).

Honorable Mention:

Seth Garfield, In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and theNature of a Region (Duke, 2013).

The Distinguished Service Award (2014)

Lyman Johnson, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

The Elinor Melville Prize for Latin American Environmental History (2014)

Susanna Hecht, The Scramble for the Amazon and the ‘Lost Paradise’ ofEuclides da Cunha (Chicago, 2013).

The James Alexander Robertson Memorial Prize (2014)

This prize is for the best article published in the Hispanic American Historical Review.

Brodwyn Fischer, “The Red Menace Reconsidered,” Hispanic AmericanHistorical Review 94:1 (November 2014), pp. 1–33.

The James R. Scobie Memorial Award (2015)

This award supports a short, exploratory research trip abroad (normally four to twelve weeks) to determine the feasibility of a PhD dissertation topic dealing with some facet of Latin American history.

Fernanda Bretones Lane, Vanderbilt University: “Empire and Liberation inthe Caribbean: Cuba and Jamaica the Age of Revolutions.”

Daniel Cozart, University of New Mexico, “Afro-Peruvian Creoles: TheSocial and Political History of Black Peruvians in an Era of Nationalismand Scientific Racism”

Audrey Henderson, Emory University, “'Exceptional Conditions:’ ThePostrevolutionary Politics of Lake Texcoco Development”

Shannon James, UNC-Chapel Hill, “Resurrecting the Past in the NewNicaragua: The Politics of Memory and the Sandinista Revolution”

Cos Tollerson, New York University, “Social and Cultural Change and the1964 coup d’état in Brazil.”

The Lewis Hanke Prize (2014)

This award supports field research that will allow transformation of a dissertation into a book.

Alexander Hidalgo, Texas Christian University, “The Indian Map Trade inColonial Oaxaca.”

The Lydia Cabrera Award (2014)

The Lydia Cabrera Award supports the study of Cuba between 1492 and 1868.

Scott Cave, Pennsylvania State University, “Signals: Cross-CulturalCommunication in the Spanish Atlantic Frontier, 1470–1570”

The Mexican History Prize (2014)

This prize is awarded annually for the book or article judged to be the most significant work on the history of Mexico published during the previous year.

Jamie M. Pensado, Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and AuthoritarianPolitical Culture During the Long Sixties (Stanford, 2013).

Honorable Mention:

Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, Industry and Revolution: Social and EconomicChange in the Orizaba Valley, Mexico (Harvard, 2013).

The Tibesar Prize (2014)

This prize is for the best article in The Americas.

Caroline Williams, “'Living Between Empires: Diplomacy and Politics inthe Late-Eighteenth Century Mosquitia,” The Americas 70:2 (October2013), pp. 237–268.

The Vanderwood Prize (2013)

This prize is for the best article on Latin American history in a journal other than HAHR or The Americas.

Michel Gobat, “The Invention of Latin America: A Transnational Historyof Anti-Imperialism, Democracy, and Race,” American Historical Review118:5 (2013), pp. 1345–1375.